Lynette+Wallace


 * SUMMARY: Lynette Wallace, age 22, died September 27, 1975 after an abortion performed at Inglewood Women's Hospital in Los Angeles, CA.**

On September 13, 1975, 22-year-old Lynette G. Wallace, a native of Baltimore, underwent a safe and legal abortion at [|Inglewood Women's Hospital] in Los Angeles County.

Early on the morning of September 27, Lynette went to the emergency room reporting abdominal pain. Staff reported that she became agitated and "difficult to handle." They put her in restraints, and she was pronounced dead of cardiopulmonary arrest at 10:53 AM.

The autopsy revealed what the abortionist should have detected -- the pregnancy had not been in Lynette's uterus but in her fallopian tube. The tube had ruptured, spilling blood and a 10-week fetus into Lynette's abdomen.

Women who seek abortion should be less likely to die of ruptured ectopic pregnancies than women who do not seek abortion. After all, the abortionist is supposed to perform an examination verifying the size of the uterus, and is supposed to visually examine the abortion tissue to be sure that the entire fetus and placenta are present. Also, a pathology examination is supposed to be done on the uterine contents to verify the presence of the entire fetal/placental unit.

However, women who seek abortion are actually [|more likely to die of ruptured ectopic pregnancies] than women who do not seek abortion. The pain and nausea associated with an ectopic pregnancy are often mistaken for ordinary post-abortion symptoms, and are ignored until the tube ruptures and the woman's life is in danger.

Lynette is one of many deaths currently attributed to Inglewood Women's Hospital (aka Inglewood Women's Clinic) in Los Angeles County. The [|others] are @Yvonne Tanner, @Kathy Murphy, @Belinda Byrd, @Cora Lewis, and @Elizabeth Tsuji.

Source: LA County Coroner Report 75-11665

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